Advice Roulette

This coming weekend I have two dates. I'm meeting woman 1 (redhead) for lunch and woman 2 (blonde) for movies later on. Both are second dates (no kissing yet).
In May I'm going to party in Vegas, which might include hooking up with a Latina friend from Los Angeles.
What's the best way to keep at least one of my dates interested, but without making a commitment until I come back from Vegas (over 3 months from now)?

d--- headed advice would be not to mention relationships at all and let her make what ever assumptions she wants to make until you head to Vegas.
Nice guy advice would be to just be honest that you aren't looking for anything specifically serious but that you enjoyed there company and wouldn't mind continuing.

My whole life I have heard the whole mantra find a career in something that you like, find your dream job, ect, but at age 33 I'm getting to the point that if I don't do something to have an actual career I won't have the shot later. Should I continue to try to figure out what is going to make me happy and go to college for that or should I just figure out a career that I can make decent money at and go to school with that in mind?

My whole life I have heard the whole mantra find a career in something that you like, find your dream job, ect, but at age 33 I'm getting to the point that if I don't do something to have an actual career I won't have the shot later. Should I continue to try to figure out what is going to make me happy and go to college for that or should I just figure out a career that I can make decent money at and go to school with that in mind?

Doing a job you don't love but making bank at it is underrated, go for it. As long as you don't feel your job defines you. Doing a job for the money can open up resources to do things you love, but can't necessarily make a living at, in your time OFF of work. Travelling, maybe going to an art school or creative writing class, buying and playing every video game known to man (OSU looking in your general direction). I think finding a career in something you love, while it would be awesome, is pretty rare. Not to say it's not something to try for, but like you said at 33 I think it's time to start thinking long term.

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Doing a job you don't love but making bank at it is underrated, go for it. As long as you don't feel your job defines you. Doing a job for the money can open up resources to do things you love, but can't necessarily make a living at, in your time OFF of work. Travelling, maybe going to an art school or creative writing class, buying and playing every video game known to man (OSU looking in your general direction). I think finding a career in something you love, while it would be awesome, is pretty rare. Not to say it's not something to try for, but like you said at 33 I think it's time to start thinking long term.

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My mom used to sing to me, "You've got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative..."
Over the years, that came to mean to me to prioritize the positive things your life and deprioritize the negatives. Love what you have and don't worry about what you don't have. That doesn't mean to abandon all ambition of course, but it does mean to enjoy the present while you work towards the future you want. It really helps maximize the amount of time you spend in your life Happy. It's really worked great for me.

What should I make in my crock-pot this weekend?

Edit: I strongly agree with Brick's advice. You don't want a job you HATE, but you don't have to like it. Just remember you're there to make a living so you can better enjoy life outside of work.

Doing a job you don't love but making bank at it is underrated, go for it. As long as you don't feel your job defines you. Doing a job for the money can open up resources to do things you love, but can't necessarily make a living at, in your time OFF of work. Travelling, maybe going to an art school or creative writing class, buying and playing every video game known to man (OSU looking in your general direction). I think finding a career in something you love, while it would be awesome, is pretty rare. Not to say it's not something to try for, but like you said at 33 I think it's time to start thinking long term.

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All of this is very true.

I don't love my job... but... I'm good at it, it's somewhat rewarding, and it pays the bills and leaves me enough to have big screen cable TV/fridge stocked with imported beer/fully stocked liquor cabinet/trips to Mexico or Vegas every 12-18 months/provide for my wife and daughter/a nice car/new furniture and carpeting/ and have a little bit left over in the bank. On top of that, outside of about 2 weeks a year when we have DoE audits or I'm asked to travel and train some people at one of our auxillary campuses, I never take any work home with me. I definitely don't feel that my work defines me... it pays the bills, that's about it. If the industry I was working in wasn't sinking like the Titanic, I'd have no problem staying here forever/till retirement and collecting my 4-7% a year raises and occasional promotions and be completely happy just popping 6% a year in my 401(k), paying into Social Security, making some side income betting on MMA/CFB, collecting my Intel dividends every quarter, and popping some flex cash into companies I think are undervalued in the market or precious metals. It's not glamarous, but I never had delusions of being a billionare... I always just wanted to be happy with a family that loved me, to me, that's my winning lotto ticket.

I gotta say, I wouldn't trade what I have now to make $25,000 a year writing video game reviews or playing poker or doing something else I love doing on my free time. Why? Because I wouldn't be able to afford the things above that I enjoy doing on my off time.

On the flipside, I also wouldn't trade where I'm at right now to make $110,000 a year... but be completely miserable and have no time to enjoy any of the things I listed above.

(Now, if you added another 0 to that $110,000 and made it $1,110,000 a year... then I'd sell my soul and work 20 hour days for a few years before retiring at 37-40. That's another story though.)

I couldn't think of anything worthwhile to ask. No one here wants to offer advice on what hair color I should go for next LOL

Go with dark red hair, almost so dark it's brown.

My question:

Today is my birthday (I won't say my age but I will say that it's the 10th anniversary of the debacle that was my 21st birthday), how many beers/shots do you think I should drink tonight with my friends? And no, I'm not driving.

Today is my birthday (I won't say my age but I will say that it's the 10th anniversary of the debacle that was my 21st birthday), how many beers/shots do you think I should drink tonight with my friends? And no, I'm not driving.

Sixteen. Eat beforehand. Drink some water. Enough to get happy drunk, and to still remember.

What's the best way to stay awake and alert at work, without caffeine or "uppers", especially if sleep is poor at night?

Sixteen. Eat beforehand. Drink some water. Enough to get happy drunk, and to still remember.

What's the best way to stay awake and alert at work, without caffeine or "uppers", especially if sleep is poor at night?

I find that getting up and going for a walk helps to rejuvenate. Some of my coworkers might all be going down to the cafe at 3:00 or so to get coffee. I don't drink coffee that late, but I'll go with them, and when I get back to the office I feel a little better having walked around, got the blood flowing, broke up the routine, etc. If you can't get away, I've read various times of some at-your-desk exercises you can do.

Mrs. Brick needs a hobby. She's somewhat artistic, has dabbled with drawing and photography in the past, but hasn't shown much interest when I've tried to suggest she do classes or something. Loves dogs, hates cats (good girl). Likes the outdoors but not fanatic about it, and this is Ohio so not much in that regard around here (cold, flat, boring outside). Any ideas?

Mrs. Brick needs a hobby. She's somewhat artistic, has dabbled with drawing and photography in the past, but hasn't shown much interest when I've tried to suggest she do classes or something. Loves dogs, hates cats (good girl). Likes the outdoors but not fanatic about it, and this is Ohio so not much in that regard around here (cold, flat, boring outside). Any ideas?

Depends on how many hours a day she is willing to give up, or has free for herself

heres a few ideas I could suggest hope they are of some use,
Seeing as your wife is artistic you can buy like jewelry making kits there not that expensive
also If your wife likes candles you can get candle making kits also

What's the best way to keep gym clothes and hand wraps from going rotten?
Buy several sets and do laundry on the weekend? Or do laundry 3 or 4 times a week? Or...?

My god father runs a Launderette always use to work there learned a good few tricks
Clothes break down quicker on hot washes which means less wear you get so adjust it to medium and it will still do the trick and gym stuff will last a little bit longer
Also using different things like fabric softer also wears clothes down
Use one detergent mainly non-bio powder
as for gym clothes 2 sets would do you fine.